Comments about oreilly Python in a Nutshell:

this book dives right into business, no "hello world" muck, but i wish there was a python 3 version

Comments about oreilly Python in a Nutshell:

I've read around 15 books on Python by now, and this is definitely the best for understanding how to make good use of Python. Alex Martelli is profoundly knowledgable about Python, which is also evident from the Python Cookbook.

It's an excellent reference, it covers more areas than the other books I've read and in the Network and Web Programming part it compares different frameworks for writing Internet applications. It was from this parts recommendation that I started to use twisted that has turned out to be really great for making advanced server and client applications.

Beginners should not start with this book, but rather Learning Python 1st edition (the 2nd ed. is a bit longish and explains too much for beginners) or even better: Quick Python. However, both of these are a bit out of date.

Comments about oreilly Python in a Nutshell:

A great book! I've written a full review.

Comments about oreilly Python in a Nutshell:

Worst Python book by ORA since Learning Python. Why can't some publisher find a good writer that knows Python. Obviously, ORA can't. I was really looking forward to the release of this book and have been very disappointed. I'm only on Chapter 5, but am dusting off my Python 2.1 Bible and giving it another chance. The quality of books from ORA seem to be declining rapidly. Hopefully, this will be changed.

Comments about oreilly Python in a Nutshell:

This is a great book, or will be in the corrected printing. The errata page shows that there is on average one error per twenty-five pages. And I'm generously counting the index in the page count. This is far too many errors for such an important volume. ORA should have invested the resources and time to do better. This community will wait for -- and reward -- quality.

Comments about oreilly Python in a Nutshell:

My search for the ultimate Python bookis over.

Having a good programming background I needed a comprehensive but short book that talks about everyting I need and nothing I don't. Python in Nutshell was the real deal.

Comments about oreilly Python in a Nutshell:

Being a ObjectiveC developer of yore, I had changed sides a long time ago to become a pure user and earn a living as a banker. After nearly ten years of abstinence I was recently introduced to Python by a student working at our office. Happy to recognize many of the concepts of ObjectiveC I decided to learn Python for pure fun. I found the online documentation not as helpful as proclaimed on python.org, but I got into Python with the help of 'Learning Python' by Mark Lutz and then got on with 'Programming Python' by Mark Lutz.

What I was missing dearly, however, was a concise but comprehensive reference book. In 'Python in a Nutshell' I have found what I had been looking for and more. Aimed at Python programmers with some prior knowledge of Python, it is not exactly a starting point for beginners, but it is a truly excellent guide to programmers conversant with other programming languages. The book is well organized and clearly arranged with a good index. It offers all the syntactic and morphologic specifications required for application development, accompanied by well written code samples. The coverage of Tkinter is brief (I am still looking for a thorough coverage of that topic), but sufficient for a reference book. In short, I am happy with Alex Martelli's work - it is sitting next to my keyboard all the time !